Waistband for trousers



gwuawto'o Dec 13, 1927 W. J. STAUSS wAxs'rsAnD FOR TROUSERS Filed Jan'. 5. 1925 \Q VIIIIII N Patented Dec. 13, 1927. I

UNITED CSTATES I 1,652,543 PATENT OFFICE. w

WALTER J. STAUSS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO UNION SPECIAL MACHINE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

:WAISTBAND non TROUSERS.

Application filed January 5, 1925. Serial No. 573.

The inventio'nrelates to new and useful improvements in trousers, and more particularly to the waist .bandconstruction thereof.

A'n-object of the invention is to provide a Waist band construction which includes a stiffening strip 'and a liningor facing strip, and wherein 'said lining strip and stiffening strip are secured-together and to the body fabric forming the trousers by stitches which are concealed from view at the front of the garment by the body fabric, and also concealed from view at the inside of the garment by the facing strip, and wherein there are two lines of concealed stitches, one of which is located adjacent the upper edge of the stiffening strip and the other at the lower edge thereof.

In the-drawings which show by way of illustration one embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is a sectional view through the body fabric of the trousers, the stiffening strip and the facing strip which have been united by the improved arrangement of concealed stitches, and prior to the folding of the waist band inside of the garment;

Fig. 2 is a similar view but showing the waist band structure folded inside of the body fabric of the trousers, and

Fig. 3 is a plan view from the inside of the garment, the several layers being broken fiway to show the construction of the waist and.

.The invention is directed broadl to a waist band construction wherein a sti ening strip suchas canvas or the like, is secured to a facingstrip, and to the body fabric of the trousers by concealed stitches, that is, stitches which are concealed from view from the front of the garment and also from the inside of the garment. The facing strip has its edges inturned, and the inturned portions of the facing strip are secured to the stiffening strip by lines of stitches which pass through the inturned portions only of the facing strip, so that said lines of stitches, are concealed by the body portion of the facing strip.

The invention will stood by a in which a cated at 1. is indicated dicated at 3. is inturned at probably be best underdetail reference to the drawings, canvas stiffening strip is indi- The body fabric of the trousers at 2, and the facing strip is in- One edge of this facing strip 4, and this inturned edge is superposed upon the body portion 2 of the fabric forming the trousers, and the body portion 2 is superposed upon the canvas strip 1. These parts are united by a line of stitchesv 5 which enter first the inturned portion of the facing strip, and emerge from the outer face of said stiffening strip, where the thread loops forming the penetrating stitches are secured in the ordinary way; that is, either by a looper thread or by an interlocking of the loops which penetrate the fabric parts. The lower edge of'the fac-- ing strip 3 is inturned at 6. The inturned port-ion 6 of the facing strip is secured to the stifi'ening strip 1 by aline of stitches 9. These stitches are formed by a series of loops which pass first through an inturned portion 6 of the facing strip and then through the stiffening strip, and the loops are either enchained or secured by a looper thread. These concealed stitches are of the type shown inthe atent to Higgins No. 1,195,814, granted ugust 22, 1916. The thread from which the loops are formed lies between the inturned portions of the facing strip and the body portion of the facing strip, and the loops are passed through said inturned portions and the fabric parts to be united thereby. Thus it is that the body portion of the facing will conceal the threads so that they are invisible from the face side of the fabric strip. The body fabric after it has been secured to the waist band is folded to the position shown in'Fig. 2, and the stitched parts may be tacked in this position, if desired. The body fabric 2 will conceal the enchained loops which look the needle threads and cause the loops formed therein to secure the parts together.

In a co-pending application, Serial No. 570, filed of even date herewith, there is shown a machine for forming this waist band and placing the concealed stitches in the manner above described. The broad principle embodied in the machine resides in the fact that the facing strip passes in rear of the needles which form the line of stitches to the stitching point. The side edges of the a waist band construction has been provided wherein the waist band can be made and secured to the body portion of the trousers in one operation. Both the upper and lower edges of the waist band being finished and the parts which are united during this peration have their stitches laid so as to be ters-Patent, is

1. The combination with the body fabric of trousers,of a stiffening strip at the waist band of the trousers, said body fabric being folded over the upper edge of said stiffening strip, afacing strip having its upper edge inturned and placed against the inner face of the folded over edge of the body fabric,

a line of stitching passing through the inturned portion only of the facing, said foldlower edge thereof being inturned and se- I cured to the stiffening strip by a line of stitches which passes through the inturned portion only of the facing strip and through said stiffening strip, said last-named line of stitches being concealed from View at the outer face of the garment by the body fabric and at the inner face of the garment by said facing strip.

2. In a waist band for trousers, the combination with a stiffening strip of a facing strip, the facing strip having its edges in turned; said inturned edges being secured to the stiffening strip at each edge thereof by zr'line of stitches, said lines of stitches being passed through the inturned portions of the edges of the facing strip and through the stiffening strip, whereby said stitches are concealed from View by the overlying portion of the facing strip.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature. WALTER J. STAUSS. 

